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All the samples of milk proved satisfactory, the
average milk fat content being 3.53 per cent. The legal minimum
is 3 per cent.
There were 26 adulterated or unsatisfactory samples,
details of which are given in the Statistical Summary.
Food Hygiene Regulations, 1955
Whilst it is necessary to exercise constant vigilance
to ensure that the Food Hygiene Regulations are observed the
food traders in the Borough have been most cooperative and any
breach which has been brought to their notice has almost
invariably been dealt with at once.
An exception was a greengrocer's assistant who was
repeatedly warned against smoking in food premises and was
finally prosecuted and fined £7.0s.0d. with £2.2s.0d. costs.
Cautionary letters have also been sent to other offenders in
respect of smoking infringements. It is perhaps worth mentioning
that the general attitude towards smoking is somewhat inconsistent,
Smoking is a bad habit with few redeeming features. We discourage
the young from smoking but persist in it ourselves. A
food handler may not smoke whereas the customer may do as he
pleases, although it is well known that a food handler who smokes
is far more dangerous to himself than to the person to whom he
sells food. The Government is well aware of the dangers of
smoking to the health of the public now and in the future, but
for financial or for other reasons has done nothing to discourage
smoking except to impose a tax on tobacco which is so
high as to cause grumbles but not high enough to deter. It is
unlikely that there will be any major change in habits whilst
the present scale of advertisements and inducements to smoke
persist, but it is to be hoped that it will gradually be accepted
by the public that smoking is a private vice which should be
indulged in privately and that public and open acknowledgment
of it is to be deplored.